Camera and City

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Photo courtesy of CaixaForum.

This exhibition deals with the camera and the city, based on the work of photographers and filmmakers who have dissected the metropolis and which pose different scenarios of urban life.

The experience of the big city is part of the essential conditions of modernity. This simultaneous birth generated, throughout the 20th century, a series of correspondences that gave rise to a specific genre in the history of the photographic medium: street photography. The relationships between photography and city, however, are much more complex. These stories speak of the euphoria of the metropolis and the solitude of the modern city, of war and reconciliation, of protest and change, of self-affirmation in the streets. The stories are very varied, ranging from the birth and growth of the city to the melancholy generated by its decline, going through its role as a meeting point or the vigilance exercised over the citizens in this global village of ours it was digitalThis exhibition, from collections of the Pompidou Center in dialogue with photographs and film material from Spanish collections, explores the history of the fruitful relationship between the city and the camera.

The exhibition revolves around several problems, visible through the mixture of historical photographs, such as the iconic "Paris at night" series of Brassaï, the surrealist prints of Cartier-Bresson, along with contemporary works such as the projects of Philippe-Lorca of Corcy or Barbara Probst. Finally, the exhibition opens up to the future, which places the street in the era of globalization from the point of view of Paola Yacoub or the virtual street of Google Street View under the pretext of Viktoria Binschtok.

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